tal , 2 months ago

(crippled by Trump)

If you mean the USPS scaling down, that’s kinda had to happen. People send way less mail than they used to. Electronic communication has displaced a bunch of postal mail.

I just bought a sheet of forever stamps this week, and the roll they were replacing was IIRC 34 cent stamps. That’s how long it was taking me to get through a roll.

goes looking for when I would have bought them

…usps.com/…/domestic-letter-rates-since-1863.htm

Yeah, those haven’t been current in 22 years.

goes looking for mail volume numbers

about.usps.com/…/first-class-mail-since-1926.htm

The USPS peaked in volume back in 2001. In that year, they transported 103,656 million pieces of mail.

Last year, they did 45,979 million pieces.